Red apricots make spring

Chapter 162 Peaceful life
Lu Ce looked up at her for a long while, then Fang nodded and said, "It is reasonable to say that after the concubine is accepted, those who have concubines in the house should be sent away, and they will not be able to take concubines in the future. It's just that our situation is a bit special, I don't know. What will His Majesty plan." In fact, he had thought about this question long ago, but he didn't say it, after all, the matter of Princess Shang has not yet been settled, so there is no need to think too thoroughly about the aftermath.

Gentlely sighed, picked up the writing brush on the pen holder, scratched it casually on the table, and said: "Xi Zhu said, the princess that the Holy Majesty is going to marry is the most unruly one, is it the Princess An Ning I met today?"

"Yes." Lu Ce frowned slightly.

"Then since she is the most favored princess by the Holy Majesty, the Holy Majesty will not let her be wronged. If you keep a concubine Ji in your room, in her opinion, it will be more or less a thorn in the eye?" It is impossible to ask the princess how much There are many people who are virtuous, and many ancient etiquettes are used to restrain the common people, not the royal family.

This is also what Lu Ce couldn't figure out. He mused: "At the beginning, I used the excuse that we had an affair, and the Holy Majesty gave the marriage. On the surface, it was a kind of fulfillment. If the princess married, I would send you away. It stands to reason that I should Resentment, right? Your Majesty would not have made such a foolish move." After speaking, his heart moved slightly, unless the Majesty deliberately revealed this matter in front of the Ninth Prince to test his intimacy with the Ninth Prince and his true thoughts. Instead of really marrying the princess to him.If at that time he took any informed action to resist marrying the princess, then he would not be calling himself.

"Who knows?" Rourou didn't know what Lu Ce was thinking, but said lazily: "Maybe in his eyes, the first half year of a woman's favor is the limit, and you should be tired of it by then, marry the princess again, and send Ji Ji away." Concubine, the best of both worlds."

"Maybe." Lu Ce said with a slight smile, "Anyway, don't think about the divorce letter. You'd better endure it for two months and pretend to be sick." If you are in a hurry to divorce her right now, it is definitely a foolish move It's better to wait and see what happens, nine out of ten, this princess will not marry into his family.

"Okay then." Wenrou said disappointedly: "I'll pretend to have smallpox then, right?"

"Smallpox?" Lu Ce pondered for a moment, then nodded.

"Then later, you can help me find a doctor and ask me what are the symptoms of smallpox, so that I won't reveal my secrets, and everyone will die together!" Wen Wen said, stood up and yawned: "It's getting late , Tired all day, I go to bed first."

Lu Ce nodded, and sat there watching her open the door of the study to go out, then stared at the light and sat silently.

In the next few days, Ruan was busy drying those June persimmons to make candied fruit or tomato sauce.There is no way to store it in a vacuum, and making tomato sauce is still a headache for her. After thinking for a long time, she finally came up with a way. She found some small celadon altars, washed them, filled them with water, heated them in a pot to sterilize them, and put six Moon persimmons are steamed in cages, peeled and stalked off, crushed, put in a pot, mixed with salt, boiled, cooled and quickly put in an altar, sprinkled with some white wine before sealing the altar, and stored in a cool place.

It was purely repetitive and monotonous work, especially peeling the skin of the June persimmon. After peeling the skin of the maids in the mansion, it took several days for her skin to change color.But in order to be able to eat delicious tomato sauce in the season when June persimmons are not growing, I have to grit my teeth and endure it.

To be on the safe side, after making dozens of jars of this pure-flavored tomato sauce, Gentle asked someone to buy some garlic, and led a group of maids to start peeling garlic, chopping peppers, and mixing them into June persimmons to make tomato sauce. After all, garlic has a bactericidal effect. Although some people don't like the smell, it is better than pure tomato sauce when stored.
It was so easy to sell all the persimmons in June, Ruan Rou calculated in private, she had saved nearly a thousand taels of silver, and when she was satisfied, she did not forget that although the peppers are long-lasting, some fresh ones must be made into chili sauce Fortunately, chili sauce is much easier to make than ketchup, but when chopping peppers, the smell is still so choking that people sneeze, and the chili sauce will hurt for a long time when it sticks to your hands, which is really painful Word.

There are more chili sauces than tomato sauces, and I can’t finish them at home. Gentleman sent a lot to the shop, and asked the staff to put a small plate on each table, let the guests eat by themselves, no extra collect money.On the one hand, I want to cultivate the habit of eating chili peppers among the ancients. On the other hand, with such a distinctive seasoning in my shop, it is easy to attract more diners to try it.

This trick is really effective. People are always greedy for petty gains. Seeing that the chili sauce is so popular, I have never seen it before, and they don’t charge money. Some diners frown and want to try it.The first few times, I couldn't help being so hot that my throat smoked, and I was eager to find cold water to relieve the spicy, which made more of the cold osmanthus fish in the store sell out.

After staying for a long time, the diners are used to the spicy taste. Many people even came to pay attention to the chili sauce. They even asked the staff to inquire about the method in private. Unfortunately, the staff did not know what it was. She didn't know how to do it, and she could only be dumbfounded and speechless when asked, so those diners who wanted to taste the taste of chili had to go to the gentle snack shop, which made her business more prosperous for a while.

At the same time, the eggplant-flavored crystal jelly, tomato cake, and simple tomato pizza in the pastry shop are also selling well. Compared with usual, they can always earn a few taels of silver every day, but Mei Xiang has become busier. , if it wasn't for the help of Mrs. Liu, she wouldn't be able to handle it at all.

The Guanguan shop settled accounts, and then taught Mrs. Liu how to cook and pastry. When busy, two months passed in a blink of an eye. The made chili oil was sent to the shop. In this cold season, drinking a bowl of duck blood vermicelli soup with scallions and chili oil really warms people from the stomach to the heart. In Lu's mansion, hot pot is also popular After it was brought to the table, everyone sat around in one place on weekdays, hot food, eating and drinking at will, and it was quite enjoyable.

During the period, Lu Chenzhou, the old man of the Lu family, came to the door several times, most of them came for the hot peppers that Ruan Rou kept privately. Every time he ate the food up to his throat, he burped and left contentedly.Ruan once returned the jade bracelet, but Lu Chenzhou glared and said: "Is there any reason to take back the things that the old man gave away? If you must return it, you will look down on the old man!" The words were gentle and speechless, and finally Lu Chen Zhou smiled again and said: "If the little girl feels sorry, it is reasonable to cook more novel dishes to appease the old man's stomach."

If you want other things, gentleness is really hard to come by, but if you want to eat novel dishes, why is it so difficult?That day Ruan Rou took great pains to make Western-style black pepper steak, fearing that he would not be used to eating it too raw, so he made it medium rare, and also made some butter chicken rolls and salted pork knuckles, but she was afraid that the old man would eat too much meat and it would be bad. I made another sweet shrimp salad, hoping he can eat more seafood instead of meat that is bad for his health.

The day is going smoothly, there is no special trouble to disturb this daily tranquility, the only thing that makes Wen Rou headache is that Ye Yu has been staying in the martial arts hall, she asked Mei Xiang and Xiaohuan to find him a few times, thinking Ask him to come back for a meal, but he always has an excuse to shirk it, but he just doesn't want to come to the door.Rourou knows that he has unresolved knots in his heart, and she doesn't force it, but she still feels sad when she thinks about it occasionally. She really wants to go back to the days when it was hard but there was no quarrel, but she knows that it is impossible to turn back time, let alone go back to the past However, the relationship between her and Ye Yu will not change much. After all, she has to come to this point, so she can only sigh with regret.

Apart from Ye Yu's matter, if there is anyone who can teach gentleness and helplessness, it must be Lu Ce!She finally had some leisure this day, she calmed down and counted the days of marrying him with her fingers, and it has been three months.The longer she was in contact with him, the stronger her affection for him became. She didn't want to go on like this anymore, fearing that it would be more difficult to let go after a long time. However, there was no news about the princess's marriage, as if she was in Tianfo Temple that day. Everything she heard was just imagined by her out of thin air.But it doesn't matter if it's true or not, even if the princess doesn't marry, she still has to leave here!
Short-term pain is worse than long-term pain!Looking at the bamboo shadows and water colors in the distance from the corridor, Rourou made a dark decision.

"That's right! That's right!" The crested mynah jumped happily on the shelf again.

Caiyun heard the movement and came over to check. He added some eggs and rice to the small bowl that the starlings ate, and said with a smile: "Why is Madam standing here? It's very windy. Let's go inside and have a seat."

"Okay." Rou Rou nodded and walked into the room, and then ordered Cai Yun, who was the first to pull up the soft curtain for her, to find Lu Ce.
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